· Private foundation
The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREW'S - SEWANEE SCHOOL | $39,000 |
| BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH | $30,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| SETON FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $15,000 |
| SOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FUND | $15,000 |
| SEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| ST STEPHENS AND ST AGNES SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $8,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| OZ ARTS INC | $5,500 |
| FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS | $5,000 |
| CUL2VATE | $5,000 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SAST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +72%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +44%
- BTBORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SCSOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $27k
- BFBRAVER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $24k
- WWISHBONEone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
See Disclosure Above.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Andrew's-Sewanee School and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds SEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds OZ ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DB Peru Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS SEWANEE A CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL ↗
- Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Tennessee Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.